Before you fire live rounds, you learned some fundamentals right? 

Now, you know the fundamentals of how cars work and their parts.

Ultimately, learning the fundamentals and getting a Dealflow was way more important in the early years than team building because...'

I know one of the fundamentals in MMM is to pay off all debt as quickly as possible.

In fact, here's a recent article where NAR is quoted as saying "like-kind exchange transactions are fundamental to the real estate investment sector, and repealing the tax provision would have negative effects across real estate markets and the industry".I'd say don't worry about them going away any time soon.

Given that my goals may be a bit of an outlier, other than the fundamentals of investing in sub-30K real estate, is it worth the BP community's attention span for me to start a blog here?

I won't say that prices aren't exorbitant in Vancouver but I think there are fundamental forces driving these price gains.

Yes @James Park, 1031s are still fundamentally unchanged.  

Fundamentally, what should I be using to evaluate price & make offers?  

This is the fundamental problem in markets like LA where cash flow on many of the rentals have a ways of being negative.